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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:
> No wonder you don't understand: Ada 95 had none of the container stuff or 
> other features that reduces the memory management burden without using GC. 
> At a minimum, you need to consider Ada 2005, but the most recent Ada is 
> best.

Ah, ok, I was also going by

  http://cowlark.com/2014-04-27-ada/index.html

which claims Ada has no standardized way to release allocated memory (so
each implementation had its own way).  If you can suggest a good place
to read about the current standard method I'd appreciate it.

> you understand a Pascal-like subset of Ada and then pretty much ignore
> all of the other possibilities. If you did that for C++, you'd get
> essentially C; would that be a fair way to look at C++'s
> capabilities??

To be fair, the Pascal-like subset I looked into first was SPARK (I read
John Barnes' book about it) since SPARK was the aspect of Ada that at
first interested me the most.  I'd be interested to know how the Ada
2012 containers differ from C++ STL containers.  As mentioned elsewhere
I believe that the same guy (Alex Stepanov) had a hand in the design of
both.